From: James Boswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The Hardware List <[email protected]>
To: The Hardware List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [H] -LO- CNet does a test workout: Dual Core AMD vs.
DualCoreIntel
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 21:38:19 +0000
865 was culled because it was old, the rest were absolute bottom end, you
can put money on them selling boatloads of i945 chipsets, i955X chipsets,
and the forthcoming i975 chipset though... and that's where the money is,
in the middle ground where the volumes are high and the margins aren't
pitiful.
You want to supply a link showing that the 945, 955 and 975 chipsets make up
the bulk of their sales this year? They certainly are higher margin, but I
would not call them "high volume" just yet. The majority of Intel desktops
sold this year did not have any of these chipsets.
I fail to see how you're corroborating 'they cull a bunch of low end
products' with 'they only make money on mobile chipsets' Hayes.
Actually the corroboration makes perfect sense to somebody with reading
comprehension. Intel makes very little profit on low end chipsets that
happen make up a huge share of their total shipments. They'd rather shift
their manufacturing capacity towards more profitable chipset products. Their
highest margin chipset BY FAR today is their PM chipset as they can charge a
premium and get away with it. They can not do so in a market saturated with
competing VIA, SiS, and NVIDIA products.
